创造与领导力的结合:创造型领导

Integrating Creativity and Leadership:Creative Leadership

管理理论的研究已迈进创新/创造管理阶段,其典型代表为创造型领导力的理论研究。文章在探讨了创造与领导力关系的基础上,分析了创造型领导的影响效能,阐述了领导者创造思维的前因、领导者与员工创造思维过程研究。最后从创造型领导的技能与策略的发展、认知神经科学范式的采纳、多维整合等角度,评述未来研究趋势。

As the development of the society and the economy,the management theories are developing into the fifth stage,which is called Innovative/Creative Management.And creative leadership is one of its representatives,which is defined as the procedure that the leaders,who construct an organizational climate supporting employees to create,use the creative skills and strategies to stimulate employees to solve problems initiatively and creatively,and achieve the organizational goal finally.The technological change,and the competition emphasize the need for creativity in the organization.This makes the scholars pay more attention to the creative leadership, and makes so many behaviors and cognitions of creative leaders being investigated Few papers reviewed the research,especially in the perspective of the cognitive mechanism under this leadership style.In this paper,the author attempted filin to the gap.After exploring the relationships between creativity and leadership,which provided the theoretical and practical bases for creative leadership,the paper analysed the influences and effects of creative leadership on the organizational level,which included the construct,climate,cultrue, and size of the organizations,as well as the level of employees,which spelifically focused on the strategies arousing the employees＇creativity. Based on the previous fingdings,five strategies were displayed that were appealled the most frequently,while still needed more evidences to approve their functions.Then the author elaborated the antecedents and processes of leaders＇and employees＇creative thinking and behaviors.In this part,both leaders and employees had their own cognitive mechanism model.Obviously,each model was constructed in the view of the employees,the fundamental bias that overlooked the leaders＇initiative.More convincing models are still needed.Finally,the future research tendencies,including the need of new development of the creative leading skills and strategies,research paradigms referencing the neuroscience and multi - dimensional integration of the creative leadership,were discussed.